# Tityrus

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**Tityrus** may refer to:

- Tityrus, the shepherd in Virgil's *[Eclogues](/source/Eclogues)*, or [Virgil](/source/Virgil) himself
- Tityrus, a pseudonym used by [Edmund Spenser](/source/Edmund_Spenser) for [Geoffrey Chaucer](/source/Geoffrey_Chaucer) in *[The Shepheardes Calender](/source/The_Shepheardes_Calender)*
- Tityrus, the pseudonym of J.A.H. Catton, editor of the *[Athletic News](/source/Athletic_News)*
- Tityrus, an alternative name for the [Musimon](/source/Musimon), an ovine beast in Medieval heraldry and Greek legend
- *Tityrus*, a taxonomic synonym for the plant genus *[Narcissus](/source/Narcissus_(plant))*

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